How Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing
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A unit of Europe’s largest retailer is offering IT services to companies wary of big providers such as Amazon and Google
  • @yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
    5•9 days ago

    Can’t read the article (paywall) but how are Lidl’s cloud services more significant than something like OEDIV owned by food manufacturer Dr. Oetker?

    • schubidubiduba
      3•8 days ago

      From my very quick research, OEDIV seems to mostly offer managed hosting for IBM, SAP and Microsoft services, with tech support, setup help etc.

      StackIT from Lidl is a more general cloud offering, for instance offering more customisable options (like barebone VMs) for the companies that want to do things themselves